Truck Scalping

PButler96 wrote:

shelbyfv wrote:
I'll second the suggestion that if you aren't in a hurry just order what you want. You'll get it for MSRP and the inflated value of your current vehicle, sell or trade, may put you in the ballpark of a pre-COVID transaction.

The dealers I have talked to, about 10, are still trying hard to lowball trades. Also none will guarantee a date when an ordered vehicle will arrive nor guarantee the final price/deal/trade value when it does arrive. It's a crapshoot. How could they?, the market could be completely different months or a year from now, and they're not going to lose a dime on a deal.

I know two people who ordered and when the vehicles arrived the dealer tacked on $5K as a take it or leave it market adjustment, happily refunding the hand money they laid down to order. They did not lose any money but lost a lot of time for nothing. Pick the dealer carefully. You can get it all in writing but read the fine print, they'll have it covered so they can do what they wish.

For sure. Lots of unscrupulous businesses out there now. 1000% more than pre Covid.
Well maybe not unscrupulous per se, I’m just getting weary of the newfound lack of integrity of subcontractors and suppliers since Covid, that I never experienced in the previous 20+ years. It’s costing me ( well, the company I work for and my investment in them) millions, just on the work I’m responsible for…over the course of 21-22 years, we estimate our unrecoverable losses from inflation/escalation IE the costs we can’t pass along to the clients to be well over $200 million or about. 6% hit to the bottom line. And the only reason it’s not worse is a good portion of our work is private party not public works.

Oh and you’re also right, it’s a rare day that one couldn’t do better financially by keeping as much of the total transaction of upgrading to a brand new vehicle out of the dealers hands….by not trading in.